Uttar Pradesh in Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش, also popularly known by its acronym UP, is the fifth largest and the most populous state in India. The administrative and legislative capital is Lucknow and the judicial capital is Allahabad.

18.11.06

Baidehi. Varanasi. Uttar Pradesh

Baidehi is an old woman, people told me, 100 years old. She is a destitute woman from the state of Bihar. She came to Varanasi to die. She is living with other older women inside a house next to the cremation ghats. You can see all her belongings next to the clay oven where she cooks her meals. A very nice woman, I forgot her name, has set up this place for those women to die peacefully. she was adorable.